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Should naked human body be used as an art symbol?
(Beijing Review)
Updated: 2005-07-20 11:26
Don't Criticize What You Don't Know
Xu Xiao (freelance writer): What is performance art? In essence, I think,
performance art can be defined as a relatively free expression of the performer
through body activities or actions.
A nude man crawls
off the belly of a dead ox at the grass ground of a Nanjing
Park where performers stage a show of the
art of behavior. [baidu] |
In terms
of its concept, the boundary of performance art is not very clear. It is mainly
created according to the performer’s idea, and doesn’t always feature nudity.
Performance art came into being in the West and has become a relatively
mature form of art after many years of development. But in China, the
development of performance art is just at the embryonic stage. By saying that I
mean, whoever it is, the performer him/herself or the audience, they do not seem
to know what they are doing or what they are watching.
All kinds of strange performance art that emerged in China in recent years
are hard to be accepted by its citizens, as they incline to going to extreme and
seem completely unreasonable. Particularly when some of the performance art
creators tend to express themselves mainly in extreme ways like causing bodily
harm, drawing blood. This challenges the extremes of humanity and morality.
I am saying that in present China, few people know what art is, let alone
performance art. But now more people are commenting on things that we do not
really have any knowledge of. My point is if we do not really know what
performance art is, the best thing is to tolerate it.
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